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Highlights
- F. van Dixhoorn's Collected Works is made up of sequences and series in which short colloquial phrases make surprising, sometimes puzzling, connections inside strict 16-line grids.
- Author(s): F Van Dixhoorn
- 372 Pages
- Poetry, European
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About the Book
F. van Dixhoorn's Collected Works is made up of sequences and series in which short colloquial phrases make surprising, sometimes puzzling, connections inside strict 16-line grids.
Book Synopsis
F. van Dixhoorn's Collected Works is made up of sequences and series in which short colloquial phrases make surprising, sometimes puzzling, connections inside strict 16-line grids. Different counting mechanisms in each series create a cadence that orders a multitude of disparate data and places them in a new field of tension: observations, memories, reflections, impressions, and current events. The poems depict in an extraordinary way what can go on the poet's mind on any given day: consciously, semi-consciously and unconsciously. Poetry, in short, as an art form. Poetry, in short, which creates and obeys only its own laws.
Review Quotes
F. van Dixhoorn's poetry is fascinating. So much of its action and phrasing speaks of resistance to false dramatisation, yet he delivers up in almost every poem's quietly visionary narrative a kind of small and ground-level firework display. It's that excitement which Astrid Alben so brilliantly relays in these new translations, opening up with skilled attentiveness the shapes and choreography of van Dixhoorn's unique imaginative landscapes - landscapes which, as Alben astutely recognises, seem absolutely simultaneous with the performance of his poems on the page.
- Jane Draycott, The Kingdom